An agave plant at the Duke biology greenhouse blooms after 10 quiet years; its next step: death. An agave plant at the Duke Bioscience Research Greenhouse has finally bloomed after 10 years. Last ...

There are over 200 agave plant varieties out there. Most grow wild, but there are about 30 species that are adapted to grow in people’s yards and pots indoors. While some of these species overlap ...

What no one is laughing about here in California, though, is the potential that agave presents for the Golden State’s drought-parched, fire-prone landscape. The plants use far less water than avocados ...

Waikulu Distillery owner Paul Turner stands in a Makawao field of blue agave plants Wednesday morning while describing the process of farming and distilling his premium agave spirit on Maui.

So, what do you do if you need a substitute for agave syrup? As it comes from the agave plant, this all-around syrup has a ...

But as Top Shelf Group’s chief executive, Trent, pioneered the act of growing agave plants – specifically Blue Weber Agave – outside of North and South America, with the aim to produce a ...

Today, beyond the icy grip of winter, Alice the Agave americana plant commands attention as she readies herself for her grand finale. Standing proudly at an impressive height of 25 feet, Alice ...

They decided to study Agave, a genus of succulent plants that includes more than 200 species and is widely used in Mexico to make tequila. The results were presented on October 14 during FAPESP ...

Instead, the juice from these Australian plants will ultimately be turned into "Australian agave spirit". These agaves are being grown in Queensland, in a "dry tropical" microclimate, between the ...

PREMIUM Spirits such as tequila, mezcal, pulque and raicilla are made from the stem and bulb of different variants of the agave plant. (Adobe Stock) Set up in 2011, it had four items in the ...

What do plants need to grow? Plants are a very important part of our environment because they provide us with oxygen to breathe and food to eat. Plants can be of different sizes, shapes and ...

Dermatitis. 2009;20(2):63-78. Other plants known for their spines include Serenoa repens (family Arecaceae), a North American plant commonly known as saw palmetto (Figure 6). This palm gets its ...